Reconnect to what matters
Exploring pathways towards a thriving future
We all want to live meaningful and healthy lives, don't we?
What if we could collaborate to make this a reality?
What if this already happens, and you are invited?
Why Reconnect.earth exists
Our purpose is to empower and encourage more people to explore pathways towards wellbeing for all within the means of the living planet.
But how on earth can we do this in a rapidly changing, uncertain and disconnected world, shaped by the metacrisis?
Reconnect.earth offers a process to explore topics like these - on your own, and even better together with other people.
This is an invitation to deepen your connection with yourself, other people and the living Earth.
Welcome to reconnect to what matters!
What are we creating?
This is a collaborative project, created by and for people and communites working towards a wellbeing economy, in service of life.
On this website, you will find the Reconnect.earth process and an emerging collection of resources, activities and tools to help you along your journey of learning, exploration and action.
Resource library
Books, podcasts, videos, scientific papers and other kinds of media to support your learning and reflections.
Actions
Concrete things you can do by yourself or together with others to help create a thriving future.
Activities
Inspiration and supporting material to help you host workshops, learning circles and other types of events.
Tools
To make this journey more fun, engaging and accessible, we're designing and developing free and open source apps.
The five branches of Reconnect.earth
The Tree of Reconnection
Change starts within and is both personal and collective. By collaborating, we empower ourselves and each other to live meaningful and healthy lives - very similar to how trees in the forest work together to create resilient and healthy ecosystems.
There are five branches of learning and practice to help turn the metacrisis from an abstract threat into actionable pathways towards a better future.
Reclaim
To change culture and economics towards wellbeing for all within the means of the planet, we first of all need to create conditions that make change possible. This is something we need to do together: reclaiming our time, energy, attention, agency and socioeconomic conditions. Start with yourself, and then support others to do the same.
Over time, this empowers us to thrive in life while engaging further in ways that feel right for us. This part of the process is key to help us shift our mindsets from mere consumers to active citizens and co-creators of the future.
Reflect
To develop as a person it is important to reflect about – among others – your values, your behaviours, your relationship to yourself, relationships with other people and your relationship to the living ecosystems. As a help, you can find a collection of questions on this website. You can do it by yourself, but we encourage you do to this together with other people.
Part of the Reflect branch is also to learn more about how the complex world is working and how things are connected. Be curious and explore the different resources in the library, and other resources which you find interesting!
Reconnect
Many of the world's problems today stem from a deep disconnection - from ourselves, from other people and from the living planet.
Therefore it is important to reconnect to what matters:
- Reconnect with yourself: become aware of what you feel in your body. Recognise your thoughts, feelings, what you need to thrive in life and what you find meaningful.
- Reconnect with other people, both locally and globally, and recognise their needs, and become aware of how they are interconnected with your life.
- Reconnect with other living beings and with the living planet.
Reimagine
"We cannot create what we can't imagine." — Lucille Clifton
As the metacrisis unfolds and the world seems increasingly unstable, it's easy to get distracted and feel stuck with doom and gloom. However, one of the most important forms of constructive action is to envision a better future, and to explore and experiment with pathways towards it.
By focusing on what we want to create rather than on what we try to avoid, we become much more effective changemakers. The good news is that the process of reimagining the future is a skill we can practice, and there are plenty of resources and activities to get inspiration.
Regenerate
Create what you have imagined. Make the world a better place. It's not enough to reduce our negative footprint – we need to increase our positive handprint. It is not enough to do things sustainably – we need to make a net positive impact.
If we can participate in regenerative actions at all levels (individual, in communities and for the living planet) we will get positive feedback loops and we strengthen the capacity to do even more positive actions in the future.
Actions
Explore a collection of actions you can take to help create a thriving future - for yourself, other people, and the living planet. Save the ones that spark your interest. This is not meant to be a list of tasks to be completed. Do them on your own or together with other people.
Support each other by being respectful of people's varying backgrounds and their circumstances for taking action. Instead of judging others, constructively challenge each other and encourage further actions. Change is hard, but when you do it together and celebrate your progress, you will have much more fun along the journey.
Activities
To make it easier to engage with and participate in the Reconnect.earth process, we need to go beyond the thinking dimension and learn together with peers. The community has gathered and experimented with different types of activities that makes the process of change both social and fun. After all, this is not just about surviving - but thriving!
The library of activities includes everything from workshops and learning circles to creative sessions and civic tech hackathons. Just like the resource library, the activities are co-created by and for the community. Welcome to share your favourite ways of engaging!
Our free and open source apps
To make this journey more fun, engaging and accessible, we're designing and developing free and open source apps. Like all our projects, these are co-created by and for the community. Welcome to contribute with feedback, ideas, and improvements!
Aware
Mental Health & Inner Development with a Supportive Community. Aware is an award-winning free app from the non-profit 29k, with open or private, hosted live sessions for mental health, wellbeing and inner development. Developed by Psychologists.
Life Wheel
Reflect on your life balance. Visualise your progress over time and reconnect to what matters in your life. Make reflection a habit and gain new insights for your wellbeing. Try it together with a friend or partner and strengthen your relationships.